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Strand, Mark

(Encyclopedia)Strand, Mark, 1934–2014, American poet, b. Prince Edward Island, Canada, grad. Antioch College (B.A., 1957), Yale (B.F.A., 1959), Iowa Writers' Workshop (M.A., 1962). Meditative and death-haunted, h...

Brétigny, Treaty of

(Encyclopedia)Brétigny, Treaty of brātēnyēˈ [key], 1360, concluded by England and France at Brétigny, a village near Chartres, France. It marked a low point in French fortunes in the Hundred Years War. After ...

Young Pretender

(Encyclopedia)Young Pretender: see Stuart, Charles Edward. ...

Sappho

(Encyclopedia)Sappho săfˈō [key], fl. early 6th cent. b.c., greatest of the early Greek lyric poets (Plato calls her “the tenth Muse”), b. Mytilene on Lesbos. Facts about her life are scant. She was an arist...

Carey, Peter

(Encyclopedia)Carey, Peter, 1943–, Australian novelist, b. near Melbourne. Carey's combination of science fiction and fantasy motifs with a realistic style, displayed in the short stories in The Fat Man in Histor...

Meredith, Owen

(Encyclopedia)Meredith, Owen: see Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert. ...

Old Pretender

(Encyclopedia)Old Pretender: see Stuart, James Francis Edward. ...

Kienholz, Nancy Reddin

(Encyclopedia)Kienholz, Nancy Reddin: see under Kienholz, Edward. ...

Black Prince

(Encyclopedia)Black Prince: see Edward the Black Prince. ...

Bonnie Prince Charlie

(Encyclopedia)Bonnie Prince Charlie: see Stuart, Charles Edward. ...